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Wrong Governor DeSantis! Fact – Millions Had Questioned Slavery Prior to the American Revolution
Fact: The slave trade was banned in England in 1102, 674 years before the American Revolution! A recent claim by Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida at a “Stop Woke Act’ event, stating that prior to the American Revolution no one questioned slavery, is shocking and has absolutely zero factual basis. This is alarming, especially when …
Fort George Guarded New Amsterdam and New York City for over 250 Years
The stakes were first laid for Fort George in 1625, marking the official seal of New Amsterdam and what would become New York City. From pine palisade to earthen embankments to stone fortress, the fortification was reconstructed many times by the Dutch and English on the tip of Manhattan Island, mainly with African slave labor. …
Washington’s Crossing and Friday the 13th: Both Helped Save America.
By Harry Schenawolf, author of the Shades of Liberty Series about African American soldiers in the American Revolution. Twice, General George Washington had led his reduced forces across the Delaware River. The first time occurred on December 8, 1776. He was a beaten man. His army was in tatters. And of his army, less than …
December 1776: Washington and the Continental Army in Crisis
By Harry Schenawolf, author of the Shades of Liberty Series about African American soldiers in the American Revolution. “A thick cloud of darkness and gloom covered the land and despair was seen in almost every countenance…” an officer in the Continental Army, December, 1776. Another wrote, “…strong apprehensions are entertained that the British will soon …
Westchester County New York, Neutral Ground in the American Revolution Suffered Their Own Horrific War
At the start of the American Revolution, the county of Westchester was the richest and most populous of the rural counties of New York. By war’s end, most of the county, especially a twenty-mile-wide region labeled the neutral ground, would be totally devastated. Farms were abandoned and entire communities became ghost towns. Roads were vacant …
1776: List of Battles and Skirmishes of the American Revolution in Chronological Order
An American army emerged from a militia system of self-protection. For decades these militias had been supplied and nourished by the British, only to turn on its mother country in an act of violent defiance. By 1776, patriots proved they could gather in mass and were willing to fight and die for a cause they …
Canada Lost: The American Retreat from Quebec January – June 1776
Alexander Hamilton: Myth and the Man Part 3 – Captain of Artillery and the Battle of White Plains
Introduction This, the third of four articles on Captain Alexander Hamilton and his train of artillery while in New York and leading up to the Battle of White Plains asks two questions. How well did Captain Hamilton’s company of artillery perform in battles or skirmishes prior to the Battle of White Plains? How well did …
Redcoats and Patriots: British and Continental Soldiers of the American Revolution
For thousands of photos on the American Revolution, Visit Ken Bohrer here. If you were to ask someone on the street what was the ordinary British soldier was like during King George’s time, he or she might say something like: dregs, scoundrels, scum from the streets of London, debtors, drunks, common criminals or sweepings from …